The event honored the best pastry chefs in America.

This May, a friend of ICE, noted Pastry Chef Pichet Ong received an interesting honor.

I don’t think I realized just how many ingredients exist.

Looking for a fun and interesting culinary class? ICE offers more than 1,700 recreational classes each year. Here is a round-up of some of the classes happening this month:

New Yorkers have a unique love affair with brunch.

Chef Instructor Ted Siegel’s Culinary Arts class is learning techniques for frying this week and the smell of this Southern chicken was too much for us to resist.

No one can dispute the beautiful rusticity of a carrot or a potato in its natural, whole state. Yet when vegetables are formed into the geometric, elegant shape of a tourné, an ordinary fine dining experience leaps from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

Firsts of anything are nerve-wracking. A first date. A first interview. A first pastry class.

Originally, I was drawn to this recreational class was the promise of cheese, guacamole and tequila, but I took away from it so much more: